GENERAL INFORMATION & SALE NOTES
Location: The Show & Sale will be held at The NSA Ram Sale, Builth Wells.
Maedi Visna: All the appropriate documentation regarding Maedi Visna must
accompany the sheep to the Show & Sale, as must all other appropriate
documentation including Movement Forms.
Numbering: All sheep must be numbered with their respective Lot Number before
arrival on the saleground.
Substitutes: All substitute sheep must be marked with a red dot of one inch in
diameter on the back, behind the Lot Number.
Inspection: All sheep shall be inspected by Inspectors appointed by the Society
or Branch Committee and they must only approve sheep considered likely to
produce lambs worthy of the breed, in particular they will look for clear and
correct earmarking, conformation and excessive black wool. Veterinary Surgeons
shall also be appointed for the inspection of correct mouths and in the case of
rams, testes. Any sheep rejected by the Inspectors or Veterinary Surgeons cannot
be sold through the ring at this sale or any other Society Sale but remain eligible
for registration. The decision of Inspectors and Veterinary Surgeons shall be final
and binding and they shall be absolved from any responsibility or liability for any
action taken as a result of their advice. Breeders are asked to refrain from
entering any known cudspillers.
Showing: All sheep entered for sale are eligible for showing subject to the rules
set out, but will only be judged if brought forward when called.
Commissions: The Auctioneers or the Suffolk Sheep Society will carefully execute
commissions to purchase on behalf of buyers unable to attend the sale in person
upon receipt of written instructions.
Upset Selling Prices:

There will be no upset selling price.

Order of Sale: All sheep will be sold in Guineas (105p) and in strict catalogue
order.
Conditions of Sale: All sheep are sold subject to the Society’s Sale Regulations
as printed in the flock book, and the General Conditions of Sale as printed in the
inside back cover of the Catalogue & the NSA Conditions of Sale.
SUFFOLK SHEEP SOCIETY
Unit B, Ballymena Livestock Mart, 1 Woodside Park, Ballymena,
Co. Antrim, N Ireland BT42 4HG.
Tel and Fax: 02825632342
www.suffolksheep.org

SHOW CLASSIFICATION FOR THE WESTERN CLUB SHOW & SALE
Judge – Mr Huw Francis

CLASS 1 SINGLE SHEARLING RAM – trimmed

1st 2nd
£10 £6

3rd
£4

CLASS 2 RECORDED SINGLE RAM LAMB
Entries must be from or above 180 index (breed
average), within the across breed analysis.
(Records must be available for verification)

£10 £6

£4

CLASS 3 SINGLE RAM LAMB –
trimmed/untrimmed

£10 £6

£4

CLASS 4 PAIR OF RAM LAMBS

£10 £6

£4

NOTES:
Rams/Ram Lambs may only be shown in one class. Only one entry
per Exhibitor per Class showing.
MALE CHAMPIONSHIP
(Best single Sheep)
– which may also be drawn from the 1st prize pair.
Male Champion:­
£20 & The ‘J Straker, Chadwick & Sons’
Challenge Cup.
Reserve Male Champion:­ £12.

A12:12:042
Twin
Born: 31/12/2011
Scrapie genotype: ARR/ARR (Private)
Sire:
BAILEYS B.M.W (94597)
Dam:
A12:F30 by CAIRNESS FIRST FLIGHT (90363)
G.Dam:
A12:C54 by CLYDA CRUSADER (87741)
Notes: Dam a very good breeder, her ram lambs have sold up to 2,400gns. She
has some very good daughters in the flock.

Reference to Sires:
BAILEYS BMW – purchased at Edinburgh 2009 for 8,000gns. He was Breed
Champion & Reserve Interbreed Champion at the RHAS 2010, also Breed
Champion RWAS 2010, only time shown. Sons have sold up to 14,000gns, top
four averaged £10,762, he has bred some outstanding females in the flock.
BAILEYS BRIGADIER II – Purchased in 2009 for 7,500gns, another ram which
has done a good job for us with sons selling to 8,000gns & daughters to
4,000gns.

Reference to Sires:
PEXHILL REAL LUCKY – sold to Cairness for 13,500gns, breeding tremendously
well in his first season. He sired both the Stirling and Carlisle Champions, and
two of the 1 st prize Pen of Three ram lambs Stirling 2011.
STRATHISLA SCHUMACHER – 14,000gns ram, sired rams to 48,000gns.
RYCHMAE CHEYENNE – Cairness breeding, Sire Cairness Coldplay and dam by
Glenhead Grandmaster out of a 6,000gns Muiresk ewe lamb, he has bred us
some very promising lambs this year.

Reference to Sire:
CAIRNESS RENOVATOR – Sold for 10,000gns, sire of ram lambs to 20,000gns &
females to 8,000gns, also sire of our ram lamb which was 1 st prize trimmed lamb
at the RWAS 2011, a great breeding ram.
CAIRNESS COLUMBO – sire Achievement, G Dam S46:C70. He was Champion at
Meirionydd County Show, and Bethesda Show 2011. He was exported in
December 2011 to the Llanvandera Flock in Spain.

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CONDITIONS OF SALE
(1)

This Sale is held under Bye­law 16 of the Suffolk Sheep Society's Sale (as printed in volume 126
of the Society's Flock Book). The Bye­law is hereby incorporated as a Condition of Sale.

(2)

Vendors and purchasers are deemed to agree to these Conditions of Sale, and these Conditions
of Sale are terms of any contract of sale and purchase at the Sale.

(3)

These conditions shall be governed, construed and enforced in accordance with the law of
England and the law of England shall apply to all contracts made at the Sale.

AUCTIONEER'S CONDITIONS
1.
The Sheep will be exposed in lots according to the numbers in the following Catalogue. The
Auctioneers reserve the right to refuse any bid without assigning any reason. The highest offer
on each lot will be preferred to the purchase (subject to Article 3)
2.

No liability whatever is undertaken by the Auctioneers for the statements appearing in the
Catalogue or made at the Sale. The exposer who supplies such statements is alone responsible
for any error or mis­statement. Animals affected with any disease of an infectious nature or
animals out of an infected flock are strictly prohibited from being brought to the premises
occupied or used by the Auctioneers at the time and should any such be brought, The Owner or
Consignor will be held responsible for all damage
or loss occasioned thereby.

3.

The Exposers reserve the right to fix a reserve price and to announce same before the bidding
begins or during the time of the bidding or at the conclusion thereof. The right to bid by or on
behalf of the seller in terms of the Sale of Goods Act 1893, is expressly reserved.

4.

Immediately after each purchase is declared, the risk of the animal shall be exclusively with the
Buyer, and it is declared that until a settlement shall be made in terms of these Conditions the
delivery of the animal shall be suspended. The right of the property shall not pass until the
price is paid.

5.

Immediately after the Sale all lots must be paid for in cash to the Auctioneers. The price being
paid, each lot shall be taken away at the Buyer’s expense within one day after the sale thereof.
Lots shall only be removable from the Auctioneers’ possession on a written order from their
clerk, and any lot removed in contravention of this condition may be recovered brevi manu by
the Auctioneers.

6.

If any Buyer fails to pay for and remove his purchase in compliance with the above conditions,
the Auctioneers in their opinion may either (a) sue the Buyer for the price and interest thereon
at the current Bank Rate and for the keep of, and any other expense incurred by them in
connection with such purchase, or (b) re­sell the Lot either publicly or privately and recover
from the defaulting Buyer the deficiency (if any) attending such re­sale and interest thereon as
aforesaid together with the keep and other expenses. In either case the Auctioneers shall have
the right to sue at their own instance without the consent of the Owner or Consignor, and no
defence whatever in such action shall be competent to the Buyer who shall have recourse
against the owner or Consignor alone.

7.

No undertaking of the Auctioneers or their servants to take charge of any animal after the sale
or to forward it to its destination shall be held to impose upon the Auctioneers any legal
obligation or vitiate any of the foregoing conditions.

8.

The Auctioneer is appointed Judge of the Sale, to whom are hereby submitted all disputes and
differences of any kind which may arise at and in relation to the Auction, either between
Exposers and Offerers or among Offerers themselves; his decision shall be final and binding on
all parties.

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DISPUTES
All disputes or differences of any kind which arise at or in relation to the auction, whether
between a seller and a buyer or amongst bidders or otherwise shall be referred to the
auctioneer and his decision shall be final and binding on all parties.
All other disputes shall be referred to an arbitrator who shall be appointed, failing agreement
between the parties, by the Society and the decision of the arbitrator shall be final and binding
on all parties to the dispute. Any arbitration under this clause shall be subject to the Arbitration
Acts for the time being in force.

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RAM FERTILITY GUARANTEE
17.1 All rams and ram lambs sold at a Society sale are warranted by the seller to be capable
of natural and effective service by 90 days from date of sale ("the Male Guarantee
Period") provided always that:
17.1.1 any animal which is not so capable and where the incapacity is caused or
contributed to by injury or illness howsoever caused, suffered or contracted after the
sale is not covered by the warranty; and
17.1.2 any animal which has not been conclusively determined as incapable of natural
and effective service in accordance with the procedure set out hereinafter and which
dies of natural causes during the Male Guarantee Period is not covered by the warranty.
17.2 An animal shall be deemed incapable of natural and effective service if:
17.2.1 It fails to make at least one ewe pregnant during the Male Guarantee Period under
natural breeding conditions; and
17.2.2 it is certified as being so incapable by a veterinary surgeon in accordance with clauses
17.4 and 17.5 below.
"Natural breeding conditions" means when a ram is run with ewes in normal breeding
condition, cycling without artificial interference. Ewes which have been sponged and/or
treated with hormones to induce or synchronise ovulation are deemed not to be in
normal breeding condition.
17.3 The buyer shall throughout the Male Guarantee Period give the animal full and sufficient
opportunity to prove that he is capable of natural and effective service and maintain him
in a fit condition.
17.4 If the buyer highlights that the ram or ram lamb has failed to prove capable of natural
and effective service by 76 days from sale date of the year of sale, the buyer shall
then:
17.4.1 Notify the seller in writing that the animal is to be tested; and
17.4.2 Have the animal subjected to a semen test by the artificial vagina method by a
veterinary surgeon attached to a breeding company authorised by the society; and
17.4.3 Obtain from the veterinary surgeon a duly completed Soundness for Breeding
report; and
17.4.4 (If the veterinary surgeon certifies that the animal is incapable of natural and
effective service) lodge a copy of the Report with the seller.
17.5 The seller shall be entitled to have a second test carried out by the same or a different
veterinary surgeon attached to a breeding company authorised by the Society who shall

issue a Soundness for Breeding report by 14 days after notification by the purchaser
and such Report shall conclusively determine whether or not the animal is capable of
natural and effective service. The seller shall deliver to the buyer a copy of this second
Report. The buyer shall at the expense of the seller do all acts, deeds and things
necessary to enable the second test to be carried out. If the animal shall be deemed
fertile the buyer shall on demand repay the seller the veterinary surgeon fees of the
second test and Report.
17.6 If the ram is deemed incapable of natural and effective service during the Male
Guarantee Period, the buyer may by 31st October of the year of the Sale return the
animal to the seller and thereupon the seller shall repay to the buyer the whole of the
purchase price and the cost of transport of the animal from the buyer's premises to the
seller's premises and the veterinary surgeon testing fees incurred by the buyer.
17.7 The seller shall not be liable for any indirect or consequential loss howsoever sustained
by a buyer.
17.8 As to clauses 17.4 and 17.5 and 17.6 time is of the essence.
17.9 The seller and the buyer may vary the provisions of clauses 17.4, 17.5, 17.6, 17.7
and/or 17.8 if but only if and insofar as the variation is set out in writing and signed by
each of the parties.
17.10 The terms of any statutory enactment or custom or trade which are inconsistent with
the provisions of this Bye­law 17 are hereby excluded.
17.11 Failure to comply with any of Bye Law 17 will allow the Society, at its discretion, to
cancel Society membership.
17.12 Society Bye Laws do not exempt a breeder from the Sale and Supply of Goods Act.

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GENERAL DISPUTES
In the event of a dispute arising between two or more Members of the Society any one of such
Members may refer the dispute to the Society with a request that the matter be referred to an
arbitrator to be appointed, failing agreement between or amongst the parties, by the Society.
The decision of the arbitrator so appointed shall be final and binding on all parties to the dispute
and Council has the power to ensure that the arbitrator’s decision is implemented.
Any arbitration under this Bye­law clause shall be subject to the Arbitration Acts for the time
being in force.
SPECIAL NOTICE
Council reserves the right to take samples of tissue, hair or blood from any consignment for
future use of any sort.

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